crocotta

词形变化

crocottas 复数 crocottas

别名

corocotta crocuta

释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

    A mythical dog-wolf of India or Ethiopia, said to be a deadly enemy of men and dogs and able to imitate the voice of any animal or human.

词源

From Ancient Greek κροκόττας (krokóttas, “crocotta”, first attested in Strabo's Geographica), which may have been borrowed from Sanskrit.

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